All Special Reports articles
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Special Report2021 Investment Horizons: The QE endgame
An executive board member at Fonds de réserve pour les retraites (FRR), France’s €25bn pension reserve fund, charts a way to relieve the global debt burden
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Fiduciary Management: Reshaping the pensions landscape
Mandatory tendering in the UK market has fuelled rapid growth in the fiduciary management industry
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Not another framework….
Inconsistencies in ESG reporting between corporates and across sectors are widely known. This patchwork quilt of reporting mirrors the array of frameworks and standards for corporate sustainability reporting.
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Versatile and resilient on the path to maturity
The ETF market continues its penetration across asset classes beyond equities, its traditional area of activity: According to data from ETFGI, fixed income ETFs account for the largest proportion of net new assets for the second year running and now represent 20% of the market, while commodities ETFs grew 30% in value in the year to July.
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China: First in, first out
China is focusing on a new long-term growth strategy after the success of its tough measures to contain the coronavirus outbreak
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EU sustainable finance: Impact uncertain
New EU climate benchmarks are getting industry take-up but not everyone is embracing them
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Top 1000 Pension Funds 2020: Europe’s €8trn pension pot
This year’s 7.25% increase in overall assets for IPE’s Top 1000 European Pension Funds 2020 sample to €8.3trn must inevitably be seen in light of 2019’s strong year for asset returns and 2020’s tumultuous COVID-19-related market crash. By comparison, the overall asset increase in 2019’s survey was 6.93%.
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Investment services: Pandemic exposes voting tech flaws
Companies have been using online technologies to conduct their AGMs with varying degrees of success
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Factor investing: Crisis factor
What are the prospects for factor-based portfolios after the recent market crash?
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Factor investing: Will corona be a watershed moment for credit factor investing?
Credit factor investing is in its early stages, but models and data are improving
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Impact investing: Build back better
It is a common observation – supported by the likes of the World Bank and the United Nations – that incorporating resilience into communities after a natural disaster helps prepare them for future catastrophes. This is known in the jargon as ‘building back better’.
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Factor investing: Viewpoint: The case against factor investing
Factor products are not necessarily a panacea for equity market outpeformance
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Manager Selection: A new guide to the future
Past performance is an unreliable guide to future success. Might the corporate culture of asset managers offer better foresight?
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Regulation: Asset managers - Regulators set sights on liquidity
Concerns about systemic risk and fund liquidity are driving the regulatory agenda
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Climate benchmarks: Brown to green
Brown to green - Index providers are making the first steps towards adoption of the new EU climate benchmarks
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PEPP: Time to get personal
Can the new Pan-European Personal Pension Product close Europe’s pensions gap?
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Behaviour and retirement planning: Live long and prosper
Most retirement planning models simplify people’s life patterns
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UK auto-enrolment: Solutions needed for retirees
Auto-enrolment for employees has been a success. Why not take the same approach for retirees?
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UK: More needs to be done to address post-retirement challenges
The industry has been slow to address the challenges posed by pension freedoms
